Edward J. Hannan

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Edward J. Hannan (29 January 1921 – 7 January 1994) was an Australian statistician who co-discovered the Hannan–Quinn information criterion (HQIC). He studied at the University of Melbourne and earned his PhD at the Australian National University under Patrick A. P. Moran. Most of his career was at ANU, where he held several key statistics posts: Professor of Statistics in the Institute of Advanced Studies (1971–1986), Professor of Statistics in the School of General Studies (1959–1971), and Fellow in Statistics (1954–1958). His research focused on time series analysis in both statistics and econometrics. He wrote four books, including one with Manfred Deistler. He received the Pitman Medal from the Statistical Society of Australia, was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 1970, and won the Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal in 1979. He left school at 15 to work as a bank clerk for Commonwealth Bank, then joined the Australian Army in 1941 and served as a lieutenant in the New Guinea campaign. The Australian Academy of Science named a medal after him, the Hannan Medal.